March 5, 2026 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity breaks down the latest developments in the Middle East as President Trump’s Operation Epic Furycontinues to dominate global headlines. Hannity explains the administration’s strategy to eliminate Iran’s nuclear ambitions, dismantle its ballistic missile program, and weaken the regime’s influence across the region. He also addresses media criticism and the growing debate over what “America First” truly means when it comes to foreign policy and national security.
The hour also covers breaking political news, including a cabinet change involving Homeland Security and Senator Markwayne Mullin, as well as new economic data showing strong productivity gains and job growth. Hannity argues that the administration’s policies are strengthening both the economy and America’s global position.
Throughout the program, Hannity highlights the broader stakes: preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons while supporting the Iranian people’s chance for freedom. He also discusses the evolving military strategy and intelligence operations aimed at neutralizing Iran’s leadership and terrorist networks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
down on our toll free telephone number if you want
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and ninety four one Sean if you would like to
join us. Breaking news on the cabinet front, although it's
not exactly the way the media is reporting it, searm
(00:21):
fires Christy Nome and first cabinet shakeup of second term
tap senator for replacement. That's not what happened, and the
Homeland Security Secretary, Christi Nome is stepping down at the
end of the month and Mark Wayne Mullin, the Senator
from Oklahoma, will replace her. This is what the President said,
so you have the full context and total truth. I
(00:42):
am pleased to announce that the highly respected US Senator
from the great state of Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen, will
become the US Secretary of Homeland Security, effect of March
thirty first, twenty twenty six. He put this post on
truth Social He added that Christy Nome, who he said
has served us well, we'll take over a new role
(01:03):
quote envoy for the Shield of the Americas. The President
described that position as one that will lead our new
security initiative in the Western hemisphere. Obviously, the president has
a lot of plans between Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, you know,
all of Latin America. For example, the President spoke to Gnome,
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according to this report from NBC News about the job switch.
According to two people familiar with the conversation, the secretary
was traveling. She even did a press conference immediately thereafter.
Asked by NBC News about the president's announcement, Mark Wayne
Mullen said, I found out just before you guys did,
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adding that he and Trump would talk more later today. Mullen,
by the way, Mullen's is a real serious mixed martial artist.
I am not a serious mixed martial artist. I am
trained in situational to self defence and working out in
mixed martial arts and a variety and a collective blend
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of arts and boxing, and you know, of course doing
fitness and training every day. But that's that's very different
than those people that are real artists. I mean, you notice, Lindo,
whatever I mentioned that oh there's talking about is in
a great martial artists. I've never said I was a
great martial have I ever? In the fifteen years I've
been doing it. Ever said I was great. No, but
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I can defend myself no once, no one time. Like
these keyboard warriors naked in their mommy and daddy's basement.
You never know what they're going to say.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You have, however, said it's an eclectic blend of martial arts.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You have said I say that all the time because
it is a Bob McGaugh tempo Japanese jiu jitsu. We
work with sticks, blades, firearms, and a situational street fighting
and boxing and a lot of it. I mean, we
do all of it, but the situational self defense is
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the is the real focus. Worker productivity posts the strongest
quarterly gain in five years. You're of Labor Statistics reporting
that non farm business sector labor productivity increased at an
annualized rate of two point eight percent for the fourth quarter,
well above the one point nine percent analyst at fordcast.
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The report also revised the third quarter reading upward to
a five point two percent annualized rate. Earlier estimate was
four point nine percent, the strongest quarterly gain in five years,
and together the two quarters dispel any notion that the
third quarter's exceptional performance was a one time anomaly. It
was not. ADP is reporting better than expected job growth
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in February. Companies in the private sector added sixty three
thousand jobs in February. Remember a lot under Biden, a
lot of jobs were growing in terms of the government.
Now that figure is well above economist estimates of fifty
thousand dollars job gain. People staying in their jobs, so
it saw their pay climbate, whopping four point five percent
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from the prior year. Well, you can thank the one
big beautiful bill and people are going to get much
bigger income tax refunds because of that bill as well,
which is good news. And you know a lot of
people are worried about the oil situation. I am not
as worried as everybody. And I know Vladimir Putin is,
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you know, looking at maybe somehow, you know, stopping selling
oil and putting oil on the world market. Let me
tell you what's going to happen. You don't have to
be that. You don't have to be a rocket scientist
to figure out Donald Trump and how he's thinking President
put on truth social Today. Del Rodriguez, who was the
president of Venezuela after the deposed Maduro was taken into
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the US, is doing a great job working with US
representative as well. And the oil is beginning to flow.
I think we have what one hundred million barrels of
oil now that the USA has taken from Venezuela. And
let me predict what's going to happen with Iran. Iran
is going to now be first of all, they will
pay for the entire operation of Epic Fury when all
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is said and done. There's my prediction, take that one
to the bank, and that they will be much closer
cooperation in the end with the USA. That's it, just saying,
you know, take it for what it's worth. You know.
I hate that I even have to go down this
this road and explain this again. But Linda, there are
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so many dumb people, I mean that that have microphones
in front of them and they think that they're so
frigging smart, and they're really dumb, and they just say
things that are ridiculous, like this is really Israel's war
that Donald Trump is fighting for BB and Newton. Yahoo, No,
he's not. You obviously don't know Donald Trump, and I
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know Donald Trump. Donald Trump's foreign policy has been I
mean predictably. It is so predictable that you can set
a clock to it as he leads up to a conflict.
I mean, it's not isolationism the way you know people
now are trying to define American first or America first.
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It is not as evidenced by the ISIS Caliphate wiped
out Solomani, wiped out Bagdaddi and associates, wiped out Mother
of All bombs on Afghanistan, wiped out them, you know,
the fourteen bunker buster bombs obliterating Iran's nuclear facility. This
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is not isolationism. And this current operation Operation Epic Fury,
which you know, when the President was asked how successful
it is on a scale of one to ten, he
goes about a fifteen. And the president and people are
asking questions like, why are we even involved in this?
What's the purpose? Well, maybe they should spend a few
minutes and actually open up their ears and forget about
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their own big fat disgusting you know, putred egos for
a second and listen to what the President is actually saying.
Because the President has laid it out again and again
and again that he will never allow Iran ever to
obtain a nuclear weapon. And by the way, and he
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has followed through on this they were given every opportunity
the first time before Midnight Hammer to come to some
type of peace deal. They would not do it. They
wouldn't agree to it. The President gave them fifty days
in the lead up to that conflict. After the Iranian
people were take into the streets, the President, in solidarity
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with the people of Iran said help is on the way.
And tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered by
the Supreme Leader and his henchmen. And then the President
also went on to explain, as the number one state
sponsor of terror, that he also would destroy the regime's
deadly ballistic missiles programs. I mean they went from two
(08:09):
thousand pound ballistic missiles. They were increasing the range of
these missiles. If you look at the entire region a
map of the region, every single country has been fired
at by Iran almost indiscriminately, with the exception. The only
exception that I've seen is Lebanon, where they have one
of their proxies has Ballah, and I think they even
(08:30):
hit Kaza and I think they've had other areas as well.
But every country, Arab country, is Israel, etc. Every country
in the region has been hit by these people. They
have no friends there if they didn't have it the
first time. And I've told this story before, nobody ever listens,
but I'll tell it again. I knew of things that
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were happening in the first Trump administration that Donald Trump
never got credit for. Donald Trump had created an alliance
of intelin sharing and really to stand against the Iranian
hegemony and the possibility of a nuclear armed Iran that
very few people knew about. But it was an alliance
between the US and Israel, and the Jordanians and the
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Egyptians and the Saudis and the Emirates and other countries
more on the periphery. So the President said, Okay, they
can't have nuclear weapons. They can't have these ballistic missiles
that they were going to move from two thousand pounds
to four thousand pounds. You see how difficult it is
for Israel to keep all of them from striking targets
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within Israel. Also to annihilate the Iranian regime's navy, and
so far they have destroyed pretty much their entire navy,
twenty Iranian ships, including their top submarine. Last night using
a torpedo, by the way, the first time that was
used since World War II. There's not a single Iranian
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ship now underway in the ira being Golf, the Straits
of Hormuz, of the or the Gulf of Omam. You know,
the President's been successful there. Number three, Operation Epic Fury,
ensuring the regime's terrorist proxies in the region can no
longer destabilize the region or the free world and attack
our armed forces. You know, Linda, there these idiots, you know,
(10:21):
these keyboard warriors, you know, trying to make the proclamation
that you know, it's people like me and Levin and
Ben Shapiro and Lindsey Graham, and I mean like that,
we're we're forcing and bb Nenno forcing Donald Trump to
do something. You know what I I have talked spoken
to the President about this in the lead up to this,
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and people would probably be surprised at the advice that
I gave him, but I'm not going to share that
with anybody. He asked me questions, and I gave him answers,
and I gave him honest answers. And it was not
an accident that the president has the biggest military in
the region since the Gulf War. That didn't happen by accident.
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The President took all of this seriously to prevent as
much as possible. I know we lost six Americans, but
to minimize the potential for loss of life or injury.
And then the Iranians, you know, they learned nothing from
Operation Midnight Hammer. If they had learned anything, they wouldn't
have continued to reconstitute their ballistic missile program and their
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nuclear program. But on once Steve Whitcoff was on our
show this week on Monday, and he said, Sean, we
offered them, you know, low grade enriched uranium for free,
in perpetuity, if they wanted it for civilian use. We
offered that to them. They said no. The only reason
they said no is because they didn't want They wanted
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the ability to enrich uranium so that they can quickly
turn it over into weapons grade uranium, you know, bomb
making ability. That's what they wanted. That's what they were pursuing,
and they never gave it up even after Operation Midnight Hammer.
Iran's foreign minister says his country will not negotiate with
President Trump. Oh. The fact is, we don't have any
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positive experience of negotiating with the US, you know, especially
with this administration. We negotiated twice last year and this year,
and then in the middle of negotiations, they attacked us.
I didn't know there were any leaders left, Linda. It
took out the first thirty seconds of Operation Epic Fury,
you know, forty nine. That ends up being forty nine people,
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including the Supreme Leader and all the top mullas in
Iran wiped out. And then when the Security Council met
to pick the next Supreme Leader, they wiped out everybody
while they were voting for the next leader. Now we're
on to the third generation of potential leaders. Hopefully the
next generation will be the people of Iran that will
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take their country back. You know, remember the bidenmintration, Obama administration,
you know, cargo planes of cash and know the currency.
Please with pretty please, with sugar on top, don't you know,
don't please, don't whatever you do, you know, build nuclear weapons. Okay,
we'll give you all this money, and then you know,
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we'll release hostages. Trump first comes into office, they asked
for a billion dollars a hostage. They said, well, that's
what we got paid under Obama. Why shouldn't we get
paid the same under you? Now, citizens of China Iran
Russia made close to thirty thousand trips to sensitive American
research facilities during the Biden administration. This just broke today
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New York Post exclusive later this afternoon. Between September one,
twenty twenty one, August thirty first, twenty twenty four twenty eight,
twenty eight Chinese nationals, three hundred and four Iranians sixteen
hundred and eight Russians visited laboratories run by the Department
of Energy, According to the Office of Cen Joni Ernst.
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While a Rans regime was chanting death to America, the
Biden administration rolled out the red carpet for all of
these lunatics to come into our country and gather intelligence.
They gave entry to thousands of Chinese nationals. We've talked
at length about allowing Chinese nationals to buy up land, farmland, land,
military installations, ranch land, and how stupid were these people
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on top of leaving wide open borders that allowed in
folve plus million. You know, unvetted illegals from over two
hundred countries, including known terrorists, murders, rapists, child molesters, other
violent criminals, cartel members, gang members, drug dealers. People are
out of their mind. God help us if they ever
get back in power. Linda, should I break my record
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and go? Donald Trump has agreed to go to the
White House Corresponden's dinner. Oh, you gotta go, You gotta go.
Thirty years can I finish? I know? Sorry? Thirty years
on Fox, longer on radio. And I've never been to
a White House correspondence dinner. Why would I want to
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ruin that spotless record? Because you know, and I know
that I don't want to hang out with those people.
Number one, they don't like me, and I don't like them.
I'm not going to pretend that I like them.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So question and I don't know if this is a possibility.
Could you have a table of a people?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I could have a table and watch it on TV
at home.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, I didn't say your coffee table. If you had
a table at the event, if he's breaking his pattern
and he's going and you go, it would be really cool.
And I think you bring a table of like average Americans,
like maybe some of the people from the State of
the Union or people that were at you know, the
RNC teachers.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Don't. I don't get to get my own table because
I'm Sean Hanny skin.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I'm just asking.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't know, I mean, do I think I could
probably you know, get yeah, I probably could it, But
I don't like to ask for favors.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's not a favor, that's you could give it back
to the Fable of Honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor recipients,
or you could give it to you know, I don't
know any of the people from the state at the Union.
You could bring you know, some senators or Congressional members
that actually are you know, worth their soul, you know,
Jim Jordan and the like. It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think I'm going to stay home and pass. I'm
not even sure i'll watch it. I'll watch the president's speaking,
and they're not doing a comedian this year. Jim Jimmy
Kimmel is big, oh regular ratings. First of all, the
guy's never got ratings in his life, so you know,
he would probably lower the ratings. But I guess he's
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so obsessed with Trump. He wants to be in the
same room with him. He wants to be able to,
you know, make jokes and make a name for himself
at Donald Trump's expense. That's not going to happen. Apparently
they're using a mentalist this year. I think one of those.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Are they using Oz Perlman.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't know which one they're using. I'm not sure that, guys.
I didn't pay that much attention because I didn't think
i'd even consider going. I can't even believe you're recommending
I go. If I go and portioned you to go, listen,
you could definitely.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I'll come listen. I'm a member of the media. I'd
be a lot of fun at that event.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Oh, I bet you would be a lot of fun.
There'd be a lot of yelling and screaming at the event.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
For our president.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Let's go, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We'll take the whole team.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Fox gets box, gets a lot of tables, and the
way it works at these events at correspondence dinners, then
they invite like some famous people to sit at the table,
and it's a very highly sought after ticket. I've never been.
I'm proud of my record. I think I'm the only
one in the media that's never gone. And I don't
think I want to ruin my record. I think my
record is more important. Do you want Do you want
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me to go? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And you could call me. I could keep you on
the line. And then when you want me to stand
up and like, you know, be rambunctious or cheer or
shout somebody down. I could do that for you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know, you're only going to make things worse. Let's
be honest. He would only make things dramatically worse. You know.
The great Lou Holtz, who was a friend of this
program and a friend of mine and a friend of
the TV show. He passed away. Now it was announced
by his family a short time ago that Lou Holtz
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was you know, was ill, and this was predictable that
they anticipated this. He was in hospice. Keith Oberman goes
out there, what the hell's wrong with this guy? He's
like so unhinged, and you know, and there was a
huge backlash on social media. He called one of the
greatest college football coaches of all time. A legendary comeback.
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I mean, what is wrong with these people? You know?
And then you got these people with these bizarre conspiracy theories.
Heb net and Yahoo controls Donald Trump, hebe does maybe
does like the conspiracy theorist. You know, Israel was behind
nine to eleven. Where do these people come from them?
Where do they come up with this, Adam Schiff, and
(19:21):
they really are. They must either believe it or they're
doing for click. They do it for clicks and algorithms
so that they can make money. I have no idea
what their motivation is, but it's bizarre to me. The
whole thing is bizarre. Anyway, we went over with the
president's goals are for Operation Epic Fury is in why
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are we there? What is the purpose of this? I'm like,
do you people not read anything? Do you not listen
to what the president has been saying that the purpose
of this mission is to prevent them from having a
nuclear weapon and expanding their ballistic missiles program and the
what part of the world being a safer place? Or
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some people not understanding I have a hard time understanding
dumb people. I'm really struggling with this lately, understanding dumb people,
bizarre people, conspiracy theorists, like everywhere you know, you can't
you can't turn on anything without oh my gosh, you
can't go to the internet without seeing their stupidity. I
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guess it's good copy, you know, or you know. In
the case of you know, crazy people that are perceived
to be usually not conservative, they're perceived to be conservative,
people perceived to be Trump supporters, but usually, you know,
it usually comes from them saying the most bizarre or
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anti semitic, whatever it happens to be, it is. These
are incredible times we're living in. The President made the
world a safer place. The ram will never have a
nuclear weapon. The Iranian people have a shot at freedom,
and I'm not sure why this is even controversial for
some people. President Trump said he wants to be involved
in the selection of Iran's next leader, telling Axios that
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he was opposed to the appointment of the second son
of the assassinated leader. I totally Ayatla Ali Hamani as
the next leader. I mean, would you expect anything different?
I wouldn't. He said that Hamani's son is unacceptable to me.
He continued, they're wasting their time. How many's son is
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a lightweight have to be involved in the appointment like Delsi,
Rodriguez and Venezuela. He refuses to accept a new world
leader without him putting a seal of approval on it.
How much do you want to bet when all is
said and done, the Iranians will end up paying for
their own liberation. US forces take out the mastermind of
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Iran's Trump assassination plots. On top of taking out the
leader of the Kuds forces, US and Israeli forces took
out the Iranian official behind the plot to assassinate President
Trump in the final days of the twenty twenty four
election campaign, said Pete Hegseath. It didn't identify the individual,
but Israeli media named the individual as Arahman Makadam, head
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of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. I mean they'd taken
out everybody. The level and sophistication of intelligence, the precision
and sophistication of our military is so beyond impressive. If
forget about what the next generation of warfare is going
to look like, this generation is pretty damn impressive. Trump says,
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the mission in Iran is ahead of schedule, vowing to
easily prevail. We are easily prevailing. It was an interesting
article by our friend Jonathan Turley how Trump boxed Congress
into a fight or flight the choice on Iran. And
you know Tim Kane, the Senator from Virginia, promised to
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force a vote on this War Powers resolution to bar
further prosecution of the war against Iran. Now never mind
that Obama was involved in a conflict with Libya for
seven months. You know, why would you apply the same
standard to Donald Trump as Biden and Obama. You know,
the members have certainly within their rights to call for
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these resolution. The framers wanted such debates. Well, why didn't
you do it back then? Trump says, the US is
in a very strong position. He's not wrong. Operation Epic
Fury survives Senate challenges. President Trump is going to attend
the dignified transfer of US service members killed in Kuwait.
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Caroline Levitt made the announcement yesterday at the President will
in fact attend the attend the dignified transfer of six
US service members. I doubt he'll be looking at his
watch the whole time. Intends to attend the dignified transfer
of these American heroes to stand in grief alongside their families.
I understand the Department of Wars working on scheduling the transfer.
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We will updates at the appropriate time. They laid down
their lives in defense of our country. The President was
very clear, this is about the future and not leaving
this mess for future generations to have to deal with.
You know, these murderous terrorist leaders, you know paid for
their crimes against our country and the world. And uh,
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I will the only thing that I think that that
scares anybody, But it's not part of the Trump doctrine.
Our boots on the ground now, they had to leave
the door open. You can never ever close that door.
Condelisa Rice So I always thought was very smart former
Secretary of State, described the the Operation Epic Fury as
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an attempt to neoter Iran's military power inside and beyond
their borders, including their apparenties to Hisballah, and she was
She's not wrong. We should be careful with he should
be careful with his words. Waltz is warning the Iranian
envoy after a UN clash, a heated clash between the
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US and Iran unfolding at the UN Security Council. Mike Walls,
you know, talked about the escalating situation the tents exchange
with the rams UN ambassador. Who cares. This is why
I can't stand the UN. I can't stand any of
these globalist organizations. I think they're worthless pretty much on
every level imaginable they really are. It's kind of pathetic.
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The front cover of Today's New York Post don gets
last laugh US strike kills Trump assassination plot mastermind. Navy
submarine blows up Nemesis Solomoni again. I mean that was
named after Solomoni, the world's worst terrorist. That Donald Trump,
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just like he did with the Supreme Leader Ali Hamanique
was able to track for weeks and weeks on end
and then at the right moment took out Solomoni on
a tarm Now he could have taken him out of
the sky when it was on a commercial aircraft. Probably
did that to hide who he was and didn't want
to take a private aircraft because it would have drawn suspicion.
And anyway, he lands and we didn't take it out
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of the air white not because we believe in the
preservation of innocent human life. Anyway, the assassination plotter is
now dead, on top of everyone else that they've killed.
Epic Fury used twice the air power of the Iraq blitz.
That was shockun Awe. I said this from day one.
This is shakunaw on steroids and human growth hormone. Twenty
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five hundred plus targets have been hit in Iran. Iran
drone attacks are down seventy three percent. Ballistic missile launches
from Iran have dropped eighty six percent. The number of
navy vessels destroyed are twenty. You know, one of the
interesting things about this is a lot of their air
defense systems, ballistic missile systems that we'd taken out so quickly,
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including the ships they have a lot of. This is
technology that the Iranians got from China and Russia. Ninety
percent of US troops in the region were moved out
of range of any Iranian attack, which has been a
good thing. But if you look at every country, everything
from Iraq to Jordan, to Bahrain, Kuwait, the uae Oman,
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Saudi Arabia, you know, all these countries have been hit.
I mean, they don't have a single friend in the region. Period.
End of sentence. It's over. Here's the interesting thing I
am watching. On the side. The Kurds now, according to
the New York Post today, have joined the fight. Now,
if the Iranian people that were taking to the streets
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by the hundreds of thousands and tens of thousands of
those were wiped out and annihilated by this terrorist regime,
if they are ever gonna get arms, I would argue
it's probably going to flow through the Kurds. No friends
of the Ayatola's no friends of the leadership within Iran.
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That's my prediction. We'll see if I'm right. Linda. You
want to bet on me or bet against me?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh no, no, I'm betting on you. I'm gonna bet
you go to the correspondents dinner and we crush you wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
No, we're not going to the car spinder. I already
made up my mind. The answer is no, it's a hard.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No, need to make up your mind.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I think it's hard. I made it up now. I'm
not doing a poll. I don't need to be told
to go to a dinner. I don't want to go
to I go to enough dinners.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I don't telling you to go to the dinner.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I think it was I'm not going to that Correspondence dinner.
Maybe one of the funniest moments don I miss Bill
Clinton is in the room and he goes, hey babe,
oh baby, hey baby, hey baby. I'm sure Bill Clinton
not the first time he's heard those words. Ouch. Remember
he got in trouble for that cruth. You gotta give
him credit. I mean, don Imus could be wickedly funny.
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
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and ninety four one Sean if you would like to
join us. Breaking news on the cabinet front, although it's
not exactly the way the media is reporting it, searm
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fires Christy Nome and first cabinet shakeup of second term
tap senator for replacement. That's not what happened, and the
Homeland Security Secretary, Christi Nome is stepping down at the
end of the month and Mark Wayne Mullin, the Senator
from Oklahoma, will replace her. This is what the President said,
so you have the full context and total truth. I
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am pleased to announce that the highly respected US Senator
from the great state of Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen, will
become the US Secretary of Homeland Security, effect of March
thirty first, twenty twenty six. He put this post on
truth Social He added that Christy Nome, who he said
has served us well, we'll take over a new role
(01:03):
quote envoy for the Shield of the Americas. The President
described that position as one that will lead our new
security initiative in the Western hemisphere. Obviously, the president has
a lot of plans between Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, you know,
all of Latin America. For example, the President spoke to Gnome,
(01:25):
according to this report from NBC News about the job switch.
According to two people familiar with the conversation, the secretary
was traveling. She even did a press conference immediately thereafter.
Asked by NBC News about the president's announcement, Mark Wayne
Mullen said, I found out just before you guys did,
(01:46):
adding that he and Trump would talk more later today. Mullen,
by the way, Mullen's is a real serious mixed martial artist.
I am not a serious mixed martial artist. I am
trained in situational to self defence and working out in
mixed martial arts and a variety and a collective blend
(02:06):
of arts and boxing, and you know, of course doing
fitness and training every day. But that's that's very different
than those people that are real artists. I mean, you notice, Lindo,
whatever I mentioned that oh there's talking about is in
a great martial artists. I've never said I was a
great martial have I ever? In the fifteen years I've
been doing it. Ever said I was great. No, but
(02:26):
I can defend myself no once, no one time. Like
these keyboard warriors naked in their mommy and daddy's basement.
You never know what they're going to say.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You have, however, said it's an eclectic blend of martial arts.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You have said I say that all the time because
it is a Bob McGaugh tempo Japanese jiu jitsu. We
work with sticks, blades, firearms, and a situational street fighting
and boxing and a lot of it. I mean, we
do all of it, but the situational self defense is
(02:59):
the is the real focus. Worker productivity posts the strongest
quarterly gain in five years. You're of Labor Statistics reporting
that non farm business sector labor productivity increased at an
annualized rate of two point eight percent for the fourth quarter,
well above the one point nine percent analyst at fordcast.
(03:21):
The report also revised the third quarter reading upward to
a five point two percent annualized rate. Earlier estimate was
four point nine percent, the strongest quarterly gain in five years,
and together the two quarters dispel any notion that the
third quarter's exceptional performance was a one time anomaly. It
was not. ADP is reporting better than expected job growth
(03:45):
in February. Companies in the private sector added sixty three
thousand jobs in February. Remember a lot under Biden, a
lot of jobs were growing in terms of the government.
Now that figure is well above economist estimates of fifty
thousand dollars job gain. People staying in their jobs, so
it saw their pay climbate, whopping four point five percent
(04:08):
from the prior year. Well, you can thank the one
big beautiful bill and people are going to get much
bigger income tax refunds because of that bill as well,
which is good news. And you know a lot of
people are worried about the oil situation. I am not
as worried as everybody. And I know Vladimir Putin is,
(04:30):
you know, looking at maybe somehow, you know, stopping selling
oil and putting oil on the world market. Let me
tell you what's going to happen. You don't have to
be that. You don't have to be a rocket scientist
to figure out Donald Trump and how he's thinking President
put on truth social Today. Del Rodriguez, who was the
president of Venezuela after the deposed Maduro was taken into
(04:54):
the US, is doing a great job working with US
representative as well. And the oil is beginning to flow.
I think we have what one hundred million barrels of
oil now that the USA has taken from Venezuela. And
let me predict what's going to happen with Iran. Iran
is going to now be first of all, they will
pay for the entire operation of Epic Fury when all
(05:17):
is said and done. There's my prediction, take that one
to the bank, and that they will be much closer
cooperation in the end with the USA. That's it, just saying,
you know, take it for what it's worth. You know.
I hate that I even have to go down this
this road and explain this again. But Linda, there are
(05:38):
so many dumb people, I mean that that have microphones
in front of them and they think that they're so
frigging smart, and they're really dumb, and they just say
things that are ridiculous, like this is really Israel's war
that Donald Trump is fighting for BB and Newton. Yahoo, No,
he's not. You obviously don't know Donald Trump, and I
(05:59):
know Donald Trump. Donald Trump's foreign policy has been I
mean predictably. It is so predictable that you can set
a clock to it as he leads up to a conflict.
I mean, it's not isolationism the way you know people
now are trying to define American first or America first.
(06:22):
It is not as evidenced by the ISIS Caliphate wiped
out Solomani, wiped out Bagdaddi and associates, wiped out Mother
of All bombs on Afghanistan, wiped out them, you know,
the fourteen bunker buster bombs obliterating Iran's nuclear facility. This
(06:43):
is not isolationism. And this current operation Operation Epic Fury,
which you know, when the President was asked how successful
it is on a scale of one to ten, he
goes about a fifteen. And the president and people are
asking questions like, why are we even involved in this?
What's the purpose? Well, maybe they should spend a few
minutes and actually open up their ears and forget about
(07:06):
their own big fat disgusting you know, putred egos for
a second and listen to what the President is actually saying.
Because the President has laid it out again and again
and again that he will never allow Iran ever to
obtain a nuclear weapon. And by the way, and he
(07:27):
has followed through on this they were given every opportunity
the first time before Midnight Hammer to come to some
type of peace deal. They would not do it. They
wouldn't agree to it. The President gave them fifty days
in the lead up to that conflict. After the Iranian
people were take into the streets, the President, in solidarity
(07:47):
with the people of Iran said help is on the way.
And tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered by
the Supreme Leader and his henchmen. And then the President
also went on to explain, as the number one state
sponsor of terror, that he also would destroy the regime's
deadly ballistic missiles programs. I mean they went from two
(08:09):
thousand pound ballistic missiles. They were increasing the range of
these missiles. If you look at the entire region a
map of the region, every single country has been fired
at by Iran almost indiscriminately, with the exception. The only
exception that I've seen is Lebanon, where they have one
of their proxies has Ballah, and I think they even
(08:30):
hit Kaza and I think they've had other areas as well.
But every country, Arab country, is Israel, etc. Every country
in the region has been hit by these people. They
have no friends there if they didn't have it the
first time. And I've told this story before, nobody ever listens,
but I'll tell it again. I knew of things that
(08:52):
were happening in the first Trump administration that Donald Trump
never got credit for. Donald Trump had created an alliance
of intelin sharing and really to stand against the Iranian
hegemony and the possibility of a nuclear armed Iran that
very few people knew about. But it was an alliance
between the US and Israel, and the Jordanians and the
(09:16):
Egyptians and the Saudis and the Emirates and other countries
more on the periphery. So the President said, Okay, they
can't have nuclear weapons. They can't have these ballistic missiles
that they were going to move from two thousand pounds
to four thousand pounds. You see how difficult it is
for Israel to keep all of them from striking targets
(09:37):
within Israel. Also to annihilate the Iranian regime's navy, and
so far they have destroyed pretty much their entire navy,
twenty Iranian ships, including their top submarine. Last night using
a torpedo, by the way, the first time that was
used since World War II. There's not a single Iranian
(09:58):
ship now underway in the ira being Golf, the Straits
of Hormuz, of the or the Gulf of Omam. You know,
the President's been successful there. Number three, Operation Epic Fury,
ensuring the regime's terrorist proxies in the region can no
longer destabilize the region or the free world and attack
our armed forces. You know, Linda, there these idiots, you know,
(10:21):
these keyboard warriors, you know, trying to make the proclamation
that you know, it's people like me and Levin and
Ben Shapiro and Lindsey Graham, and I mean like that,
we're we're forcing and bb Nenno forcing Donald Trump to
do something. You know what I I have talked spoken
to the President about this in the lead up to this,
(10:43):
and people would probably be surprised at the advice that
I gave him, but I'm not going to share that
with anybody. He asked me questions, and I gave him answers,
and I gave him honest answers. And it was not
an accident that the president has the biggest military in
the region since the Gulf War. That didn't happen by accident.
(11:06):
The President took all of this seriously to prevent as
much as possible. I know we lost six Americans, but
to minimize the potential for loss of life or injury.
And then the Iranians, you know, they learned nothing from
Operation Midnight Hammer. If they had learned anything, they wouldn't
have continued to reconstitute their ballistic missile program and their
(11:30):
nuclear program. But on once Steve Whitcoff was on our
show this week on Monday, and he said, Sean, we
offered them, you know, low grade enriched uranium for free,
in perpetuity, if they wanted it for civilian use. We
offered that to them. They said no. The only reason
they said no is because they didn't want They wanted
(11:51):
the ability to enrich uranium so that they can quickly
turn it over into weapons grade uranium, you know, bomb
making ability. That's what they wanted. That's what they were pursuing,
and they never gave it up even after Operation Midnight Hammer.
Iran's foreign minister says his country will not negotiate with
President Trump. Oh. The fact is, we don't have any
(12:14):
positive experience of negotiating with the US, you know, especially
with this administration. We negotiated twice last year and this year,
and then in the middle of negotiations, they attacked us.
I didn't know there were any leaders left, Linda. It
took out the first thirty seconds of Operation Epic Fury,
you know, forty nine. That ends up being forty nine people,
(12:36):
including the Supreme Leader and all the top mullas in
Iran wiped out. And then when the Security Council met
to pick the next Supreme Leader, they wiped out everybody
while they were voting for the next leader. Now we're
on to the third generation of potential leaders. Hopefully the
next generation will be the people of Iran that will
(12:56):
take their country back. You know, remember the bidenmintration, Obama administration,
you know, cargo planes of cash and know the currency.
Please with pretty please, with sugar on top, don't you know,
don't please, don't whatever you do, you know, build nuclear weapons. Okay,
we'll give you all this money, and then you know,
(13:16):
we'll release hostages. Trump first comes into office, they asked
for a billion dollars a hostage. They said, well, that's
what we got paid under Obama. Why shouldn't we get
paid the same under you? Now, citizens of China Iran
Russia made close to thirty thousand trips to sensitive American
research facilities during the Biden administration. This just broke today
(13:40):
New York Post exclusive later this afternoon. Between September one,
twenty twenty one, August thirty first, twenty twenty four twenty eight,
twenty eight Chinese nationals, three hundred and four Iranians sixteen
hundred and eight Russians visited laboratories run by the Department
of Energy, According to the Office of Cen Joni Ernst.
(14:01):
While a Rans regime was chanting death to America, the
Biden administration rolled out the red carpet for all of
these lunatics to come into our country and gather intelligence.
They gave entry to thousands of Chinese nationals. We've talked
at length about allowing Chinese nationals to buy up land, farmland, land,
military installations, ranch land, and how stupid were these people
(14:26):
on top of leaving wide open borders that allowed in
folve plus million. You know, unvetted illegals from over two
hundred countries, including known terrorists, murders, rapists, child molesters, other
violent criminals, cartel members, gang members, drug dealers. People are
out of their mind. God help us if they ever
get back in power. Linda, should I break my record
(14:50):
and go? Donald Trump has agreed to go to the
White House Corresponden's dinner. Oh, you gotta go, You gotta go.
Thirty years can I finish? I know? Sorry? Thirty years
on Fox, longer on radio. And I've never been to
a White House correspondence dinner. Why would I want to
(15:12):
ruin that spotless record? Because you know, and I know
that I don't want to hang out with those people.
Number one, they don't like me, and I don't like them.
I'm not going to pretend that I like them.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So question and I don't know if this is a possibility.
Could you have a table of a people?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I could have a table and watch it on TV
at home.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, I didn't say your coffee table. If you had
a table at the event, if he's breaking his pattern
and he's going and you go, it would be really cool.
And I think you bring a table of like average Americans,
like maybe some of the people from the State of
the Union or people that were at you know, the
RNC teachers.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Don't. I don't get to get my own table because
I'm Sean Hanny skin.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I'm just asking.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't know, I mean, do I think I could
probably you know, get yeah, I probably could it, But
I don't like to ask for favors.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's not a favor, that's you could give it back
to the Fable of Honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor recipients,
or you could give it to you know, I don't
know any of the people from the state at the Union.
You could bring you know, some senators or Congressional members
that actually are you know, worth their soul, you know,
Jim Jordan and the like. It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think I'm going to stay home and pass. I'm
not even sure i'll watch it. I'll watch the president's speaking,
and they're not doing a comedian this year. Jim Jimmy
Kimmel is big, oh regular ratings. First of all, the
guy's never got ratings in his life, so you know,
he would probably lower the ratings. But I guess he's
(16:48):
so obsessed with Trump. He wants to be in the
same room with him. He wants to be able to,
you know, make jokes and make a name for himself
at Donald Trump's expense. That's not going to happen. Apparently
they're using a mentalist this year. I think one of those.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Are they using Oz Perlman.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't know which one they're using. I'm not sure that, guys.
I didn't pay that much attention because I didn't think
i'd even consider going. I can't even believe you're recommending
I go. If I go and portioned you to go, listen,
you could definitely.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I'll come listen. I'm a member of the media. I'd
be a lot of fun at that event.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Oh, I bet you would be a lot of fun.
There'd be a lot of yelling and screaming at the event.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
For our president.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Let's go, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We'll take the whole team.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Fox gets box, gets a lot of tables, and the
way it works at these events at correspondence dinners, then
they invite like some famous people to sit at the table,
and it's a very highly sought after ticket. I've never been.
I'm proud of my record. I think I'm the only
one in the media that's never gone. And I don't
think I want to ruin my record. I think my
record is more important. Do you want Do you want
(17:59):
me to go? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And you could call me. I could keep you on
the line. And then when you want me to stand
up and like, you know, be rambunctious or cheer or
shout somebody down. I could do that for you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know, you're only going to make things worse. Let's
be honest. He would only make things dramatically worse. You know.
The great Lou Holtz, who was a friend of this
program and a friend of mine and a friend of
the TV show. He passed away. Now it was announced
by his family a short time ago that Lou Holtz
(18:33):
was you know, was ill, and this was predictable that
they anticipated this. He was in hospice. Keith Oberman goes
out there, what the hell's wrong with this guy? He's
like so unhinged, and you know, and there was a
huge backlash on social media. He called one of the
greatest college football coaches of all time. A legendary comeback.
(18:58):
I mean, what is wrong with these people? You know?
And then you got these people with these bizarre conspiracy theories.
Heb net and Yahoo controls Donald Trump, hebe does maybe
does like the conspiracy theorist. You know, Israel was behind
nine to eleven. Where do these people come from them?
Where do they come up with this, Adam Schiff, and
(19:21):
they really are. They must either believe it or they're
doing for click. They do it for clicks and algorithms
so that they can make money. I have no idea
what their motivation is, but it's bizarre to me. The
whole thing is bizarre. Anyway, we went over with the
president's goals are for Operation Epic Fury is in why
(19:41):
are we there? What is the purpose of this? I'm like,
do you people not read anything? Do you not listen
to what the president has been saying that the purpose
of this mission is to prevent them from having a
nuclear weapon and expanding their ballistic missiles program and the
what part of the world being a safer place? Or
(20:02):
some people not understanding I have a hard time understanding
dumb people. I'm really struggling with this lately, understanding dumb people,
bizarre people, conspiracy theorists, like everywhere you know, you can't
you can't turn on anything without oh my gosh, you
can't go to the internet without seeing their stupidity. I
(20:23):
guess it's good copy, you know, or you know. In
the case of you know, crazy people that are perceived
to be usually not conservative, they're perceived to be conservative,
people perceived to be Trump supporters, but usually, you know,
it usually comes from them saying the most bizarre or
(20:43):
anti semitic, whatever it happens to be, it is. These
are incredible times we're living in. The President made the
world a safer place. The ram will never have a
nuclear weapon. The Iranian people have a shot at freedom,
and I'm not sure why this is even controversial for
some people. President Trump said he wants to be involved
in the selection of Iran's next leader, telling Axios that
(21:07):
he was opposed to the appointment of the second son
of the assassinated leader. I totally Ayatla Ali Hamani as
the next leader. I mean, would you expect anything different?
I wouldn't. He said that Hamani's son is unacceptable to me.
He continued, they're wasting their time. How many's son is
(21:28):
a lightweight have to be involved in the appointment like Delsi,
Rodriguez and Venezuela. He refuses to accept a new world
leader without him putting a seal of approval on it.
How much do you want to bet when all is
said and done, the Iranians will end up paying for
their own liberation. US forces take out the mastermind of
(21:49):
Iran's Trump assassination plots. On top of taking out the
leader of the Kuds forces, US and Israeli forces took
out the Iranian official behind the plot to assassinate President
Trump in the final days of the twenty twenty four
election campaign, said Pete Hegseath. It didn't identify the individual,
but Israeli media named the individual as Arahman Makadam, head
(22:13):
of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. I mean they'd taken
out everybody. The level and sophistication of intelligence, the precision
and sophistication of our military is so beyond impressive. If
forget about what the next generation of warfare is going
to look like, this generation is pretty damn impressive. Trump says,
(22:34):
the mission in Iran is ahead of schedule, vowing to
easily prevail. We are easily prevailing. It was an interesting
article by our friend Jonathan Turley how Trump boxed Congress
into a fight or flight the choice on Iran. And
you know Tim Kane, the Senator from Virginia, promised to
(22:54):
force a vote on this War Powers resolution to bar
further prosecution of the war against Iran. Now never mind
that Obama was involved in a conflict with Libya for
seven months. You know, why would you apply the same
standard to Donald Trump as Biden and Obama. You know,
the members have certainly within their rights to call for
(23:15):
these resolution. The framers wanted such debates. Well, why didn't
you do it back then? Trump says, the US is
in a very strong position. He's not wrong. Operation Epic
Fury survives Senate challenges. President Trump is going to attend
the dignified transfer of US service members killed in Kuwait.
(23:36):
Caroline Levitt made the announcement yesterday at the President will
in fact attend the attend the dignified transfer of six
US service members. I doubt he'll be looking at his
watch the whole time. Intends to attend the dignified transfer
of these American heroes to stand in grief alongside their families.
I understand the Department of Wars working on scheduling the transfer.
(23:59):
We will updates at the appropriate time. They laid down
their lives in defense of our country. The President was
very clear, this is about the future and not leaving
this mess for future generations to have to deal with.
You know, these murderous terrorist leaders, you know paid for
their crimes against our country and the world. And uh,
(24:24):
I will the only thing that I think that that
scares anybody, But it's not part of the Trump doctrine.
Our boots on the ground now, they had to leave
the door open. You can never ever close that door.
Condelisa Rice So I always thought was very smart former
Secretary of State, described the the Operation Epic Fury as
(24:44):
an attempt to neoter Iran's military power inside and beyond
their borders, including their apparenties to Hisballah, and she was
She's not wrong. We should be careful with he should
be careful with his words. Waltz is warning the Iranian
envoy after a UN clash, a heated clash between the
(25:05):
US and Iran unfolding at the UN Security Council. Mike Walls,
you know, talked about the escalating situation the tents exchange
with the rams UN ambassador. Who cares. This is why
I can't stand the UN. I can't stand any of
these globalist organizations. I think they're worthless pretty much on
every level imaginable they really are. It's kind of pathetic.
(25:30):
The front cover of Today's New York Post don gets
last laugh US strike kills Trump assassination plot mastermind. Navy
submarine blows up Nemesis Solomoni again. I mean that was
named after Solomoni, the world's worst terrorist. That Donald Trump,
(25:50):
just like he did with the Supreme Leader Ali Hamanique
was able to track for weeks and weeks on end
and then at the right moment took out Solomoni on
a tarm Now he could have taken him out of
the sky when it was on a commercial aircraft. Probably
did that to hide who he was and didn't want
to take a private aircraft because it would have drawn suspicion.
And anyway, he lands and we didn't take it out
(26:13):
of the air white not because we believe in the
preservation of innocent human life. Anyway, the assassination plotter is
now dead, on top of everyone else that they've killed.
Epic Fury used twice the air power of the Iraq blitz.
That was shockun Awe. I said this from day one.
This is shakunaw on steroids and human growth hormone. Twenty
(26:36):
five hundred plus targets have been hit in Iran. Iran
drone attacks are down seventy three percent. Ballistic missile launches
from Iran have dropped eighty six percent. The number of
navy vessels destroyed are twenty. You know, one of the
interesting things about this is a lot of their air
defense systems, ballistic missile systems that we'd taken out so quickly,
(26:58):
including the ships they have a lot of. This is
technology that the Iranians got from China and Russia. Ninety
percent of US troops in the region were moved out
of range of any Iranian attack, which has been a
good thing. But if you look at every country, everything
from Iraq to Jordan, to Bahrain, Kuwait, the uae Oman,
(27:25):
Saudi Arabia, you know, all these countries have been hit.
I mean, they don't have a single friend in the region. Period.
End of sentence. It's over. Here's the interesting thing I
am watching. On the side. The Kurds now, according to
the New York Post today, have joined the fight. Now,
if the Iranian people that were taking to the streets
(27:48):
by the hundreds of thousands and tens of thousands of
those were wiped out and annihilated by this terrorist regime,
if they are ever gonna get arms, I would argue
it's probably going to flow through the Kurds. No friends
of the Ayatola's no friends of the leadership within Iran.
(28:09):
That's my prediction. We'll see if I'm right. Linda. You
want to bet on me or bet against me?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh no, no, I'm betting on you. I'm gonna bet
you go to the correspondents dinner and we crush you wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
No, we're not going to the car spinder. I already
made up my mind. The answer is no, it's a hard.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No, need to make up your mind.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I think it's hard. I made it up now. I'm
not doing a poll. I don't need to be told
to go to a dinner. I don't want to go
to I go to enough dinners.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I don't telling you to go to the dinner.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I think it was I'm not going to that Correspondence dinner.
Maybe one of the funniest moments don I miss Bill
Clinton is in the room and he goes, hey babe,
oh baby, hey baby, hey baby. I'm sure Bill Clinton
not the first time he's heard those words. Ouch. Remember
he got in trouble for that cruth. You gotta give
him credit. I mean, don Imus could be wickedly funny.
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